Music, Hope and Transformation Through Higher Education : A Psychogeographic Personal Narrative.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Craig.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class.

Social classes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

Offers a unique insight into the personal world of music-meaning-making, working-class heritage, and the redemption of identity through 'flight', hope, and higher education.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Figures

Foreword

References

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Music, Psychogeography and Hope: Some Theoretical Permutations

1 Introduction: A Psychogeography for Pedagogic Escape

Odyssey in Relational Ethics

The Notion of Psychogeography and the D é rive

2 Music, Memory and Haecceity

Musical Listening

Sonoric-Folding, Involuntary Memory and Haecceity

Musica Penumbra

Musica Penumbra, Haecceity and Utopia

3 Motorway, Music and Space

A Motorway Journey

Boredom and Attunement

Sonoric Slip Roads, Wayfaring and Ghost-Lines

Writing Unfolding Attunements: Songs and Themes

Part 2: Sonoric Haecceities of Heritage and Entrenchment

4 Childhood, Flight and Imagination

Daydream and Flight

A Working-Class Childhood

Language, School and Escape

M6 Junction 31 (10.05 am): ♬ 'Albatross'

Excursus 1: The Albatross

Mr Airport Man

Excursus 2: Back to the Future

5 Masculinity Autopsy

Polyphemus 1: The Cyclops

1. Odysseus and the Cyclops

2. A Cyclops in 1979

M6 J28 (10.08 am): ♬ 'Goodbye Blue Sky'

3. The Cyclops and the Volcano

Polyphemus 2: Laius and Oedipus

1. Oedipus: 'Swollen Foot'

2. Blood on a Saturday Morning

3. Letter to My Father

Polyphemus III: Emergence

1. Toxic Masculinity

2. Intensive Care Unit

3. Dandelion Yellow

6 Birds and Longing

Inaugurating the Auspex

Augur and Auspex

M6 Midway between J28 and J27 (10.11 am): ♬ 'Save a Prayer'

7 Souvenir from the Infirmary

M6 J27 - Just Passed (10.16 am): ♬ 'Souvenir'

Souvenir from the Infirmary

8 Storm Damage

The Ruin

M6 Midway between J26 and J24 (10.20 am): ♬ 'Born in a Storm'

Grounded with Sertraline

Pink Floyd and Hot Knives.

Melted Plastic, Scissors and Smoke

Flotsam from the Ruin

9 Unpicking a Revelation

M6 Approaching Junction 24 (10.22 am): ♬ 'Bye Bye Badman'

Haecceic Skids

Hope Sealed in a Brown Paper Envelope

'Bye Bye Badman'

Part 3: Sonoric Haecceities of Hope and Redemption

10 Cinematic Reverberation

University

M6 Junction 23 (10.26 am): ♬ 'Deep Blue Day'

Reverberation

Cocooned in the Shelter of Apollo's Duvet

Achelois

An Indignant Detour

Ernst Bloch

11 Soteria

A Lonely Yawp

Soteria

Un-Bloch-ing Love

The Final Bye Bye

M6 J22 through 21a - M62 Liverpool (10.30 am): ♬ 'Drops of Jupiter'

12 35,000 Feet in the Sky

Airport

M62 Junction 9 (10.34 am): ♬ 'Rocket Man'

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Ernst Bloch and the Ubiquitous Fairytale

Shipwreck: A Utopian Metaphor

Monsters Inc.

Georg Simmel and the Door

The Blochian Door: Opening Up to Utopia

Detecting Clues of Un-narrated Possibility in Monsters Inc.

A Pedagogic Drift

13 Archaeology for a Dinosaur

The Interview

Letter to Artemis

M62 between J8 and J7 (10.39 am): ♬ 'Dogwood Blossom'

Postscript for Artemis and Gelos

14 Champion of the World

The Visit

The Investigation

Oxford

M62 Junction 6 (10.43 am): ♬ 'Champion of the World'

The Final Thread

Part 4: Curricular Expeditions beyond Pedagogy

15 Born to Run

The Sphinx: A Riddle for Academic Patriarchy

Problematizing the Term 'Pedagogy'

Graeber and de Certeau on Bureaucracy

Curricular Expeditions

Currere and Heutagogy

16 Tellin' Stories

The University: A Cathedral for the Soul?

Autoethnography

Fractal Haecceity and Autoethnography

Afterword - David Hayes

Notes

3 Motorway, Music and Space.

4 Childhood, Flight and Imagination

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Hammond, Craig Music, Hope and Transformation Through Higher Education

ISBN:

9781350514294

OCLC:

1602015242